The biggest, baddest Asus gaming laptop can tear through everything you can throw at it (including its battery).
Power rivals that of many gaming desktops. Upgradeable up to Nvidia RTX 4090, 32 GB of RAM, and 2-TB SSD. Achieves super high fps even in AAA games. Gorgeous Mini LED screen. Plenty of ports.face a trade-off between power and price. With this year's ROG Strix Scar 18, Asus went all in on the former, delivering a laptop that’s more powerful thanfor the model that comes with a Nvidia RTX 4080 graphics card and a 1-TB solid state drive.
All of that is when the laptop is plugged into the charger. Raw power isn’t just a metaphor; the harder you push a GPU the more electricity it takes, and it generates more heat. Even starting games likemade the laptop’s fans audibly whirr to life. If I had the machine on my lap, it immediately felt warm—but not quite hot—to the touch. I’d advise employing agot closer to 60 to 90 fps, which was still more than playable.
Microsoft has also made it somewhat more annoying to figure out how to turn off lighting effects . Typically, controlling built-in LEDs meant fiddling with every company’s proprietary RGB LED controller app. Microsoft recently added toolsto control lighting, making things simpler for consumers and manufacturers. As manufacturers add more support for the new tools, the Dynamic Lighting features should help make things a bit more coherent.
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